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 may guarantee continuity of history between the individual and the collective society. Yet he thinks that the deep-rooted prejudices the instincts and tendencies of the race preserved in its bosom will be invaluable guides for man seeking intelligent function. For Jung "Individuation dispositions of mankind since an adequate consideration of the peculiarity of the individual is more conducive to a better social achievement, than when the peculiarity is neglected or repressed." Here Jung seems to be lapsing into the view that collective dispositions of mankind is exactly the aspiration of the entire Humanity to its completed height. The collective disposition of mankind is almost a product of social adjustment and its aspiration is however the aspiration for a better kind of world that what was available through the biological history. The aspiration of mankind of the most imaginative people of the world and the most creative spirits is to make man more divine and less animal like. The spiritual aspiration is not identical with the aspiration of biological history, which has sunk into the unconscious below the threshold of consciousness. But it is true that the true individuality seeks its expression through the intermediary biological history, inhibiting gradually the trait of its course and tortuous experience and limitation. The spirit is born in matter and finds itself. This is the lila of the spirit.
CG.Jung: Two essays in Analytical Psychology pp.162. Ibid. pp.184.

































































































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